Dead Souls by Nikolay Gogol (By (Author))

Chichikov, a mysterious stranger, arrives in the provincial town of 'N', visiting a succession of landowners and making each a strange offer. He proposes to buy the names of dead serfs still registered on the census, saving their owners from paying tax on them, and to use these 'dead souls' as collateral to re-invent himself as a aristocrat.

• | By (Author): Nikolay Gogol
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• | Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
• | Publication Date: Jul 29, 2004
• | Country of Publication: United Kingdom
• | Number of Pages: 512 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback|Softback
• | ISBN-10: 0140448071
• | ISBN-13: 9780140448078